Welcome to season 2 episode 9 of A Friend for the Long Haul - A Long Covid Podcast! This week's guest is Dr. David Putrino, Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System was appointed the Nash Family Director of the CoRE - and so many other things. Dr. Putrino and I discussed the onset of the pandemic, its impacts on him and his team (we feel like we’ve aged about 10 years since March 2020), and how the work they did early on influenced their response when patients weren’t getting better. We also talked about how he and his team care for their own mental health, impediments to research, upcoming studies they have planned, and he answered listener questions like “will you adopt me” and my question which was, “how do I set up a PO Box in New York so I can come to the clinic?” 🤣 We also get into ableism, gaslighting, ways we can all best work together, and he answered the same questions I ask everyone at the end of each episode. Thanks, again, to Dr. Putrino for joining me! About an hour after we met, I tested positive for the vid again, which kind of made me feel like I was living in Alanis Morrisette’s “Ironic” video or Bizarro World.

I also want to add - yes, we talk about medical stuff, trauma, and meds and supplements. Just because you hear about those things on this podcast, doesn't mean you should start them. Always discuss everything with your doctor!

Find out more about the Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illnesses (CoRE) here: https://reports.mountsinai.org/article/rehab2024-02-core-center-opens

Follow them on Twitter here (yes, I thrive on spite and still call it Twitter): https://x.com/coresinai The team is putting out amazingly helpful videos on their YouTube channel and you should check it out, because a lot of questions listeners had can be answered by that content: https://www.youtube.com/@coresinai

And, of course, they're on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/coresinai/

You can follow Dr. Putrino on Twitter: https://x.com/PutrinoLab and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/putrino_lab/

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